World Green Building Council

Green Homes: Better Places for People

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90 feet
A green house is a happy house.

Positively impacting the environment,

And the people within it.

 HEALTH &
WELLNESS
“The next trillion
dollar market”
McKinsey & Company

“What we call the

environment, is our
extended body… you
can’t sustain one
without the other.”
–

Deepak Chopra
 8 Features of a Healthy Building
–

Thermal Indoor Air Daylight Noise &

Comfort Quality & Acoustics
Lighting

Interior Layout & Biophilia & Look & Location &

Active Design Views Feel Access
 Daylight &
Lighting
–
Office workers working near
windows received

46 mins
more sleep per night on average1

6.5 %
reduction in sick leave of
employees with good views
and suitable daylighting2

1Cheng, 2013
2Elzeyadi, 2011

Noise &
Acoustics
–
People surveyed

99%
cited impaired
concentration when
exposed to
background speech
or noise

66% Drop in performance when

exposed to distracting noise7
 Thermal
Individual control over
Comfort temperature (in a 4 C range) 1
– led to

3 7 3 %
Increase in
logical thinking
%
Increase in
typing
%
Increase in
overall
performance performance productivity2

Recent studies show air-con

standards developed in 1960s
(still used today) based on a

40yo, 70kg
male
1Wyon, 1996
2Loftness et al., 2009
3Lan et al., 2011

Indoor Air Quality

–

definition
Quality of air inside an air-
conditioned environment.

Common determinants:
•CO2
•CO
•tVOC
•Mold & Bacteria
•Atmospheric Particulate Matter
 Indoor Air
Quality
–
Fewer sick building

30%
symptoms and
better
environmental
perceptions

101 %
On average, doubling of cognitive
scores in enhanced green buildings
over conventional buildings1

Location &
Access
 Reduced Reduced
Reduced obesity depression & depression &
anxiety anxiety

Reduced
cardiovascular Improved birth
disease outcomes
 A green home is a productive one
–

299 288 131 %

Higher information Higher strategy
% %
Higher crisis response
48 %
Higher focused activity
usage scores scores scores scores

6.4 %
Higher sleep quality
26 %
Higher cognitive
73 %
Higher crisis response
44 %
Higher decision
scores function scores scores making scores

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